Street Fighter producer and Capcom developer Yoshinori Ono has announced that he will be resigning from the company he's worked with for almost 30 years this summer.
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Ono took to Twitter to explain his decision, and he began by bringing up the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic have brought upon the world and how it has impacted the Capcom Pro Tour and its format for 2020.
Ono thinks that the change in the landscape of Street Fighter has ― rustled–– his my very core.
Although Ono's success has caused some controversy with Pikmin 3, he presented his reasons on his blog in February 2014 when he confirmed (alongside the Wii U announcement) that he'd be leaving Nintendo for Capcom, where his vision of the fighting series was going to come to fruition:
By sticking to my original vision, I'm able to accomplish things I couldn't before.
With Street Fighter, you absolutely don't need to give too much love to your audience in order to win the hearts and minds of your audience.
And so, with Marvel vs. Capcom, even though there's a lot that moves and isn't exactly fair, [in the final version], I think it might be one of the more honest fighting games we've ever created. [...] from a business standpoint, I wanted what I could get. This was a 12-person team on July 8th, 2008, and this has a real science to it.
Ono said he "believe[s] all the rumors and whatnot, but I can't prove anything, but the one thing I can say is that with all the non-collaborative stuff we've had to pick up on ― in the very awkward Lion King world, the airport fiasco, the lack of new characters for SFII, and other things ― the bottom line is, I think we're managing to give more of a breadth to players that they've not had for a very long time," adding that the new characters released would make the fighting game "a whole lot better" than the series' last situations.
Speaking on Shoryuken.com, fellow producer and friend Christian Svensson commented that it was "a difficult decision for Yoshinori and an even harder decision for me," with Svensson cautioning against incurring any "unnecessary ire" by modifying the 2017 Street Fighter V roster. He noted that he felt onoyoshi, AKA Sugo Suzuki, was not preparing the same level as their other seiyuu, Rikiya Koyama, had before him, in that they didn't have the skills to make it and what that said about what he has created:
With me as a producer, I who have known Yoshinori and his work for many years, I saw my role as it often is: to keep pure what he has created and make sure it
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Ono took to Twitter to explain his decision, and he began by bringing up the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic have brought upon the world and how it has impacted the Capcom Pro Tour and its format for 2020.
Ono thinks that the change in the landscape of Street Fighter has ― rustled–– his my very core.
Although Ono's success has caused some controversy with Pikmin 3, he presented his reasons on his blog in February 2014 when he confirmed (alongside the Wii U announcement) that he'd be leaving Nintendo for Capcom, where his vision of the fighting series was going to come to fruition:
By sticking to my original vision, I'm able to accomplish things I couldn't before.
With Street Fighter, you absolutely don't need to give too much love to your audience in order to win the hearts and minds of your audience.
And so, with Marvel vs. Capcom, even though there's a lot that moves and isn't exactly fair, [in the final version], I think it might be one of the more honest fighting games we've ever created. [...] from a business standpoint, I wanted what I could get. This was a 12-person team on July 8th, 2008, and this has a real science to it.
Ono said he "believe[s] all the rumors and whatnot, but I can't prove anything, but the one thing I can say is that with all the non-collaborative stuff we've had to pick up on ― in the very awkward Lion King world, the airport fiasco, the lack of new characters for SFII, and other things ― the bottom line is, I think we're managing to give more of a breadth to players that they've not had for a very long time," adding that the new characters released would make the fighting game "a whole lot better" than the series' last situations.
Speaking on Shoryuken.com, fellow producer and friend Christian Svensson commented that it was "a difficult decision for Yoshinori and an even harder decision for me," with Svensson cautioning against incurring any "unnecessary ire" by modifying the 2017 Street Fighter V roster. He noted that he felt onoyoshi, AKA Sugo Suzuki, was not preparing the same level as their other seiyuu, Rikiya Koyama, had before him, in that they didn't have the skills to make it and what that said about what he has created:
With me as a producer, I who have known Yoshinori and his work for many years, I saw my role as it often is: to keep pure what he has created and make sure it
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